Illustration Guy Blog – The Chad Frye

Creative musings about creative stuff by a creative cartoonist.

Drawn & Quoted: Prey Before a Meal

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” – J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) As I continue to add creations to my sketchbook, various beasts and creatures continue to come forth. This dragon oozed out of my pencil unexpectedly with that mean, hungry and determined…
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$40,000 and Counting!

Thank you to those of you who have been eBay bidding on the wonderful art items that I have been selling for the National Cartoonists Society Foundation to Help the Hodges! Fifty items ended last weekend with GREAT results. Combined with another 71 things ending THIS SUNDAY, the total has reached $40,000 in our efforts…
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Mickey Mouse art on eBay for Charity

If you haven’t visited the Help the Hodges auctions on eBay yet, yesterday I posted another 71 reasons you should check it out. We currently have 122 items of original cartoon art, fine art, prints, posters, sculptures and books all for sale to help the family of Matthew Hodge, the teen who is presently in…
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Help the Hodges is on eBay!

Over the past few months, I have been working on a charity auction to help out the family of fellow cartoonist Tim Hodge. Tim’s teenage son, Matthew, was in a car accident involving a train last August, and has remained in a coma ever since. Tim’s insurance was not such that could take care…
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LOST Scoring Session with Michael Giacchino

I had a unique opportunity today to do some life drawings in an unusual setting – a recording studio! Perhaps I should explain. Over the past few months, I have been working on a charity auction with my friends and fellow animation colleagues Tony Bancroft and Tom Bancroft. We’ve been acquiring donations of original art…
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It Came From Philadelphia

Well, the holidays are over, which means most everyone’s traveling is done, too. The holidays wouldn’t be so bad if you didn’t have to board a plane every time you wanted to gather around the ol’ yule log with your family. Over the river and through the woods is an enviable journey compared to dealing…
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Merry Christmas 2009!

Every year as December arrives, I sit and think back on the last eleven months and wonder where the time went. It has been a rather interesting year in 2009 with much of the country trying to make sense of the economy, our government is still engaged in war, there has been a lot of…
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Cartoonists Drawing for Ronald McDonald House

On Saturday, December 5, animation legend Art Leonardi recruited thirty cartoonists to come to the Warner Bros. Ranch property in Burbank, CA, to draw for a Ronald McDonald House holiday party. Artists from The Simpsons, from DC & Marvel comic books, from Disney, from Warner Bros., and everything in between heeded the call spending several…
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